Report of the Delegates of the United States to the Third International Conference of the American States: Held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 21, to August 26, 1906

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Page 64 - Let us help each other to show that, for all the races of men, the Liberty for which we have fought and labored is the twin sister of Justice and Peace. Let us unite in creating and maintaining and making effective an all-American public opinion, whose power shall influence international conduct and prevent international wrong, and narrow the causes of war, and forever preserve our free lands from the burden of such armaments as are massed behind the frontiers of Europe, and bring us ever nearer...
Page 90 - Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : — ARTICLE I.
Page 80 - Their budgets, after being sanctioned by the said Governments, shall be defrayed by all the signatory states in the same proportion as that established for the International Bureau of the American Republics at Washington, and in this particular they shall be placed under the control of those Governments within whose territories they are established.
Page 42 - If a German naturalized in America renews his residence in North Germany, without the intent to return to America, he shall be held to have renounced his naturalization in the United States.
Page 41 - It has long been the established policy of the United States not to use its army and navy for the collection of ordinary contract debts due to its citizens by other Governments.
Page 147 - ... for the purpose of preparing a draft of a code of private international law and one of public international law, regulating the relations between the nations of America.
Page 64 - We wish for no victories but those of peace ; for no territory except our own ; for no sovereignty except the sovereignty over ourselves. We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire, and we deem the observance of that respect the chief guaranty of the weak against the oppression of the strong. We neither claim nor desire any rights, or privileges, or powers that we do not freely concede...
Page 150 - ... which said ratifications shall be communicated to the Government of the United States of Brazil; and if it should be denounced by any one of them, it shall continue in effect for one year more, to count from the date of such denouncement.
Page 76 - The subscribing Nations adopt in regard to patents of invention, drawings and industrial models, trademarks, and literary and artistic property, the treaties subscribed at the Second International Conference of American States held in Mexico, on the 27th of January, 1902, with such modifications as are expressed in the present Convention.
Page 163 - Convention; that authority shall be conferred by each Government upon its Delegates to enable them to join Delegates from the other Republics in the conclusion of such sanitary agreements and regulations as in the judgment of said Convention may be in the best interests of all the Republics represented therein ; that voting in said Convention shall be by Republics ; each Republic represented therein to have...

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